Tag Archives: Afghanistan

KABUL – The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) in a statement on Thursday announced the termination of Afghanistan’s Cricket Premier League Sanction and Commercial Rights Agreement with Snixer Sports. “The failure by Snixer Sports to pay the complete rights fees of the first edition as per the fees and payment schedule …

18 Years have passed since the incident of 9/11. The United States, which claimed that the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization was responsible for the attacks on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center and the US Department of Defense building – the Pentagon, invaded Afghanistan less than a month later …

WASHINGTON – US President Donald Trump speaking outside the Pentagon on Wednesday morning to commemorate the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks said the US is hitting the Taliban “harder than they have ever been hit before”. Mr. Trump warned that “if for any reason they come back to our …

KABUL – The ongoing situation in the country is not appropriate for the presidential elections, said Mohammad Ismail Khan, a former Jihadi leader and prominent member of Jamiat-e-Islami party, suggesting that the resumption of peace talks would be a better option. Ismail Khan, who has served as minister of energy …

KABUL – Unknown gunmen killed the deputy spokesperson for the State Ministry of Disaster Management in Kabul city on Friday evening, the authorities said Saturday. The State Ministry for Disaster Management said in a statement that the deputy spokesperson, Hashmat Bahaduri, was killed while he was on his way to …

ISLAMABAD – On Saturday, in Islamabad, the third round of trilateral dialog between China, Afghanistan and Pakistan will take place. In a statement, the Foreign Office of Pakistan said that Chinese President Wang Yi, Pakistani Minister of Foreign Affairs Shah Mahmood Qureshi, and Afghanistan’s Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani, will lead …

KABUL – Afghanistan’s acting minister for Hajj and religious affairs, Abdul Hakim Munib, has claimed that he was physically assaulted by strongmen in presidential palace on Friday. Munib was humiliated and physically assaulted by six strongmen including former member of parliament, Mullah Tarakhil Mohammadi, and two incumbent MPs, a statement …

FARAH — Taliban have attacked a third provincial capital in less than a week, with an overnight assault on the western city of Farah, security officials said on Friday. Provincial Governor Mohammad Shoaib Sabet said there’s no immediate word of casualties early Friday and that airstrikes have been carried out …

MAZAR-E-SHARIF – On Thursday, September 5, the first container train departed from Afghanistan to China that will have to pass through Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan Railways reported. A train of 41 containers loaded with semi-finished stone of mineral talcum powder departed from the Hairaton station via the Friendship Bridge – a rail-road …

WASHINGTON – President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani will visit Washington to meet his US counterpart Donald Trump, it has been reported. A source privy of the development has said President Ghani will visit Washington on 13th of September to meet with President Donald Trump. The source further added that the two …